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spread of improveable lands, and am already ploughing up 
some, fencing others. Addison. —Expansion of parts.—No 
flower hath spread that of the woodbind. Bacon. 
SPREAD EAGLE, a post village of the United States, 
in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. 
SPRE'ADER, s. One that spreads.—By conforming 
ourselves we should be spreaders of a worse infection than 
any we are likely to draw from Papists by our conformity 
with them in ceremonies. Hoo/cer. —Publisher; divulger; 
disseminator.—If it be a mistake, I desire I may not be ac¬ 
cused for a spreader of false news. Swift.- —One that ex¬ 
pands or extends.—If their child be not such a speedy 
spreader and brancher, like the vine, yet perchance he may 
yield, though with a little longer expectation, as useful and 
more sober fruit than the other. Wotton. 
SPREA'DING, s. Act of extending or expanding.—Can 
any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of 
his tabernacle ? Job. 
SPREE, a navigable river of the Prussian states, which 
rises in Upper Lusatia, near Zittau and the frontiers of Bo¬ 
hemia, passes by Budissen, receives the Lobau, the Schwein- 
nitz, and the Schops, crosses the Spreewald, separates Coin 
from Berlin, and joins the Haval at Spaudau. Its course is 
very slow, with hardly any falls or rapids, so that it is very 
fit for navigation, and is joined to the Elbe and the Oder by 
canals. 
SPREMBERG, a town of the Prussian states, in Lower 
Lusatia, on an island in the Spree. Population 1700; 
28 miles south-south-west of Guben, and 45 north-east of 
Dresden. 
SPREMBERG, a village of Saxony, on the Spree, about 
30 miles east of Dresden. Population 1500. 
SPRENDLINGEN, a town of Germany, in Hesse-Darm- 
stadt, west of the Rhine; 8 miles east of Creutznach, and 16 
west-south-west of Mentz. Population 1100. 
SPRENGELIA. See Poiretia. 
SPRENT, part, [from sprene, to sprinkle; pppengan, 
pppenan, Sax.; sprengen, Dutch.] Sprinkled. Obsolete. 
—O lips, that kiss’d that hand with my tears sprent. Sidney. 
SPREY, adj. Spruce. Exm. dial. See Spruce. 
SPREYTON, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 7] 
miles east-by-north of Oakhampton. 
SPRIDL1NGTON, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
7§ miles west-south-west of Market Raisen. 
SPRIG, s. [brig, Welsh, a twig, shoot, or sprig, of a 
tree: the English sprig seems to be hence derived, q. d. 
ys brig. Davies, and Richards. Nevertheless, Dr. Johnson 
considers it of the same race w’ith spring; and Serenius, not 
however overpassing the Welsh word, refers it also to the 
Swedish spricka: as, loefven spricka ut, the leaves come 
out. Todd. ]—A small branch; a spray.. 
Our chilling climate hardly bears 
A sprig of bays in fifty years; 
While ev’ry fool his claim alledges, 
As if it grew in common hedges. Swift. 
A brad or nail without a head. 
To SPRIG, v. a. To mark with small branches; to work 
in sprigs. Ask. 
SPRIG CRYSTAL, s. In perpendicular fissures, chrys- 
tal is found in form of an hexangular column, adhering at 
one end to the stone, and near the other lessening gradually, 
till it terminates in a point: this is called by lapidaries sprig 
or rock chrystal. Woodward. 
SPRIGG, a township of the United States, in Adams 
county, Ohio. Population 1664. 
SPRI'GGY, adj. Full of small branches. 
SPRIGHT, s. [contraction of spirit, spiritus, Lat.; it 
was anciently written sprete, or spryte ; and spirit, as now 
written, was long considered in verse as a monosyllable.] 
Spirit; shade; soul; incorporeal agent. 
Forth he called out of deep darkness dread. 
Legions of sprights, the which like little flies, 
Fluttering about his ever damned head. 
Await whereto their service he applies. Spenser. 
Walking spirit; apparition.—The ideas of goblins and 
sprights have no more to do with darkness than light; yet 
let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a 
child, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again. 
Locke .—Power which gives cheerfulness or courage. 
O chastity, the chief of heavenly lights. 
Which mak’st us most immortal shape to wear. 
Hold thou my heart, establish thou my sprights : 
To only thee my constant course I bear. 
Till spotless soul unto thy bosom fly, 
Such life to lead, such death I vow to die. Sidney . 
An arrow. Not in use. —We had in use for sea fight 
short arrows called sprights, without any other heads save 
wood sharpened; which were discharged out of muskets, 
and would pierce through the sides of ships where a bullet 
would not. Bacon. 
To SPRIGHT, v. a. To haunt as a spright. A ludi¬ 
crous use.-— I am sprighted with a fool. Shakspeare. 
SPRIGHTFUL, adj. Lively ; brisk; gay; vigorous.— 
Spoke like a sprightfut noble gentleman. Shakspeare. 
SPRI'GIITFULLY, adv. Briskly ; vigorously. 
Norfolk, sprightfully and bold. 
Stays but the summons of the appellant’s trumpet. Shakspeare. 
SPRI'GHTFULNESS, s. Sprightliness; gaiety; vivacity. 
—Sharpness of apprehension is a sprightfulness of the mind, 
and is there liveliest where there be most spirits. Hammond. 
SPRI'GHTLESS, adj. Dull; enervated; sluggish. 
Are you grown 
Benumb’d with fear, or virtue’s spright less cold? Cowley, 
SPRI'GHTLINESS, s. Liveliness; briskness; vigour; 
gaiety; vivacity.—The soul is clogged when she acts in con¬ 
junction with a companion so heavy; but in dreams, ob¬ 
serve with what a sprightliness and alacrity does she exert 
herself. Addison. 
SPRI'GHTLY, adj. Gay; brisk; lively; vigorous; 
airy; vivacious. 
When now the sprightly trumpet from afar. 
Had giv’n the signal of approaching war. Dryden. 
To SPRING, v. n. pret. sprung or sprang, anciently 
sprong; part, sprung, [pppingan, Sax.; springen, Dutch.] 
To arise out of the ground and grow by vegetative power. 
To his musick, plants and flowers 
Ever sprung, as sun and showers 
There had made a lasting spring. Shakspeare. 
To begin to grow.—That the nipples should be made with 
such perforations as to admit passage to the milk, when 
drawn, otherwise to retain it; and the teeth of the young 
not sprung, are effects of Providence. Bay .—To proceed 
as from seed.—Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of 
themselves; and in the second year that which springeth 
of the same. 2 Kings. —To come into existence; to issue 
forth; 
Had’st thou sway’d as kings should do. 
Giving no ground unto the house of York, 
They never then had sprung like summer flies. Shakspeare . 
To arise; to appear; to begin to appear or to exist.—To 
them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is 
sprung up. Matt .—To issue with effect or force. 
Swift fly the years, and rise the expected morn; 
Oh spring to light: auspicious babe be born. Pope. 
To proceed as from ancestors, or a country.—Our Lord 
sprang out of Judea. Heb. 
All these 
Shall, like the brethren sprung of dragons' teeth, 
Ruin each other, and he fall amongst ’em. B. Jonson, 
To proceed as from a ground, cause, or reason. 
They found new hope to spring 
Out of despair. Milton. 
To grow; to thrive. 
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